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San Francisco Giants’ Brandon Crawford is congratulated after hitting a two-run home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

One weekend in late November, it’s Hunter Pence’s wedding. A week later in New York, teammate Joe Panik marries his fiancée, Brittany Pinto. And before either of those nuptials, Crawford has one more baseball wedding that doubles as a family affair: his sister, Amy, will marry Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Gerrit Cole.

By the time it’s all over, he’ll have seen more knots tied than a longshoreman.

The Crawfords also are planning a trip to South Africa, and it’s little wonder they didn’t want to spend time in their Arizona house. As Crawford wrote, a pipe burst in June while nobody was home, necessitating repairs to walls, flooring and replacement furniture.

“Somehow the pool table – which we keep in the living room – emerged unscathed,” Crawford said.

Presumably, the TVs still work, too – not that Crawford will be watching the World Series. He wrote that he had no interest in seeing the Cubs and Indians, “because I want to be playing in it. We could have been there.”

Crawford committed an error in the ninth inning of the Game 4 loss, when the Cubs stormed back to clinch their NL Division Series, and he wrote that after the loss he was “as down as I can remember being.

“I felt partially responsible, of course, for the throwing error that put the go-ahead run on second,” Crawford wrote. “But no matter how you lose and who’s responsible, a loss like that stings. And it stings for a while. I’ve avoided SportsCenter and MLB network because I’m afraid I’ll happen upon clips of that game. Who knows how far we could have gone had we held on?”
Indeed. The Cubs had begun to play tight in that Game 4 at AT&T Park, and the Giants were three outs away (with a three-run lead) from forcing a decisive Game 5 at Wrigley Field. But there’s no changing the outcome now.

Better, then, to look ahead – and maybe check out some wedding registries. We hear candlesticks always make a nice gift.